# CVE-2023-50725: Resque vulnerable to reflected XSS in resque-web failed and queues lists

- Also known as: GHSA-GC3J-VVWF-4RP8
- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.2.1
- Published: 2023-12-22 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- resque: fixed in 2.2.1
- resque (RubyGems): fixed in 2.2.1

## Description

Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later. The following paths in resque-web have been found to be vulnerable to reflected XSS: "/failed/?class=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>" and "/queues/><img src=a onerror=alert(document.cookie)>". This issue has been patched in version 2.2.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on resque, upgrade to a fixed version (2.2.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/resque/resque/security/advisories/GHSA-gc3j-vvwf-4rp8
- https://github.com/resque/resque/pull/1790
- https://github.com/resque/resque/commit/ee99d2ed6cc75d9d384483b70c2d96d312115f07
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/resque/CVE-2023-50725.yml

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